'The Color Purple' and the Patient Griselda

Author / Editor
Ellis, Deborah S.

Title
'The Color Purple' and the Patient Griselda

Published
College English 49 (1987): 188-201.

Description
Most of the major elements of plot and theme in ClT reappear in Alice Walker's novel of 1982. The heroines of each, Griselda and Celie, passively accept male domination and tyranny but finally achieve reconciliation.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.